My latest essay for NORML got picked up by LewRockwell.com:

The Drug Enforcement Administration was created by President Richard Nixon through an Executive Order [on] July [1,] 1973 in order to establish a single unified command to combat “an all-out global war on the drug menace.” At its outset, the DEA had 1,470 Special Agents and [...]

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Hey, let’s take all the fun of the reality show “COPS” and apply it to jackbooted thugs bursting in on medical marijuana dispensaries in California.  It’s the new series on Spike TV called “DEA” - but you can bet you’re not going to see any of those scenes of body-armored SWAT teams holding automatic weapons [...]

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